5. Arrest records.

An “arrest journal, which reveals only arrests,” is a more limited collection of information than “police logs which include a much broader range of items, such as motor vehicle stops which did not result in arrest.”  Since daily police logs constitute public records and do not fall under the CORI exemption from the public records definition, Commonwealth v. Holt, 4 Mass. L. Rptr. 539 (Mass. Super. 1995), the same is true of arrest records, so long as no alphabetical or similar index is made available, id. at n.4.  Similarly, pre-arrest reports are public records that do not fall under the CORI exemption.  SPR Bulletin 3-03 (Nov. 21, 2003).

Municipal police in Massachusetts must make monthly reports to the State Commissioner of Public Safety disclosing how many persons of each gender were arrested during the prior month.  G.L. c. 124, § 9.